Our Work
We envision, design, and build digital products and services.

When Intel began conversations with Hot Studio about creating something new for its AppUp Center, the chip maker’s app marketplace for Windows, both companies saw an opportunity to make a special app experience. That product wound up becoming StoryPlay, a delightful new desktop app that empowers kids to create and share stories. Designed and built from the ground up, the...

As the world’s largest online retailer of art images, Art.com is an established expert in the e-commerce space. But for its first iPad app, the company wanted to use its incredible image collection of more than 1.2 million works of art to engage customers, allow for deeper experiences with the art itself, and reach a younger demographic of users. Having worked with Hot Studio...

PopTech is a unique network of the world’s most inspired—and inspiring—leaders, thinkers, and doers, dedicated to improving the way people live. Once a year, 700 of these leaders in science and technology, social entrepreneurship, design and the arts, media, and more, converge for several days in the seaside town of Camden, Maine. There they plant the seeds of initiatives that...

Kiva is an innovative non-profit that introduced web micro-lending in the fight against poverty. Through loans as little as $25, Kiva invites users to help individuals in 59 countries start businesses and build self-sufficient futures. Since opening in 2005, close to 600,000 lenders have loaned over $222 million through the kiva.org website.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is an internationally recognized museum of modern and contemporary art in the Bay Area. Hot Studio was asked to redesign the museum’s website to better showcase its preeminence.

From tourists and airport travelers to daily commuters and day-trippers, San Francisco’s Bay Area runs on BART. And yet, many of its 300,000 daily commuters turned to 511.org and other websites for information on delays, schedules, and events. As the Bay Area’s most trusted travel partner, this government agency needed a website to match. The goal: a reliable source for BART...

As the winner of a 2006 Technology Entertainment and Design (TED) prize, Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for Humanity wished to create a community that actively embraces open source design to generate innovative and sustainable living standards for all. Hot Studio and Sun Microsystems were asked to make that wish come true.